Brade (or Braade) House, Leap, Co Cork

Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London. 

p. 46. “(Jervois/IFR) A three storey five bay C18 house with a fanlighted doorway, C18 plasterwork frieze in hall, incorporating the arms of the Jervois family. After the death of Samuel Jervois the younger 1794, it went to his illegitimate sons, who are reputed to have squandered the entire property; which had passed out of the family by ca 1850.”

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John Swanton was leasing this property from Rev. Maurice Townsend at the time of Griffith’s Valuation, when it was valued at £15 10s. Lewis had noted it as the seat of Rev. E.P. Thompson in 1837. It was the residence of Samuel Jervois in 1814. Taylor and Skinner’s 1783 map also indicate it as a Jervois residence. In 1786 Wilson refers to it as the seat of Mr.Jervis. In 1906 it was owned by Katherine Townsend and valued at £44 5s. There is still an extant house at the site.  

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